Wire-bound box.



A. IVI. HOOD.

WIRE BouNn Box.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. Il, ISIS.

LQ. I Patented N0v.12,1918.

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WIRE BOUND BOX.

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Paented Nov. 12, 1918.

iT@ %TATES FATENT @Fl-fl@ ARTHUR M. HOOD, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA,ASSIGNOR, BY IVIESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO C. FRED YEGGE, TRUSTEE, OFEVANSION, ILLINOIS.

WIRE-BOUND BOX.

Application filed October 11, 1915.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ARTHUR M. HOOD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented a new and useful Wire-Bound BX, of which the following isa specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a foldable wirebound boX blankhaving cleats of such form as to protect the ends of the sheet materialand extend thc full width of such sheet material without, however,preventing a full overlapping of the edges of the sheets when the blankis folded, whereby the necessity of separate gage members for cleats andsheets, in the operation of manufacturing the blank, may be avoided.

The accompanyingr drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved boX in folded condition,portions of the top and one side sheet being cut away and one end beingomitted in order to show the cleat construction and cooperation; Fig. 2a perspective view of adjacent cleat ends and sheets; Fig. 3 a plan ofthe inner, or cleat, face of the blank in the flat; Fig. l alongitudinal section of the blank in the flat; and Fig. 5 a perspectiveview of mating cleat ends.

In the drawings, T indicates a top section, S, S, two side sections, andB the bottom section of a wire-bound box, the sections being connectedand bound together by binding wires and staples 11 in the usual manner.Each of the sections comprises thin sheet or slat material in the usualmanner and cleats C. It is in the formation of these cleats that myinvention differs from prior constructions, l

Heretofore it has been considered necessary, in order that the adjacentedges of the sheets might squarely overlap, that the cleats be of lesslength than the width of the sheets and, consequently,.in themanufacture of box blanks, it has been necessary to space the cleats adistance apart end to end greater than the spacing of the sheetmaterial.

With my improved form of cleat, this difference in the spacing of cleatsand sheets becomes unnecessary, the sheets being flush with both ends ofeach cleat.

While my improved cleat may be formed in pairs, with the ends of any onecleat iden- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

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tical in conformation, l prefer to form the cleats all alike, theopposite ends of each cleat differing so as to mate with the adjacentend of the adjacent cleat. Each cleat is provided on its upper face,along its inner corner, with a longitudinal rabbet 12, thus forming ashoulder 13 against which the end of the sheet material will abut andthus be protected. At one end the cleat is rabbeted at le* at rightangles to the rabbet 12 and leaving a thickness or projecting linger 15forming a continuation of shoulder 13. At the opposite end that portionof the cleat in the plane of the shoulder 13 and for a distance equal tothe depth of the adjacent cleat less the thickness of sheet material iscut away, as indicated at 16. This end of the cleat is also rabbetedtransversely, as indicated at 17, this rabbeting being in a planeparallel with the rabbet 12 and at right angles to the rabbet 16 so asto leave a projecting linger 18.

By this arrangement each cleat remains the full width ofthe sheet sothat the sheet will be iiush with both ends of the cleat. As aconsequence, no separate gaging mechanism is necessary for the sheetmaterial and in arranging the materials longitudinally of the bindingwires, the cleats will be spaced apart a distance equal to, or slightlyless than, the thickness of the sheet material, so that when the partsare folded into the position shown in Fig. 1, the binding wire will bedrawn tightly around the boX.

I claim as my invention:

1. A package blank comprising a plurality of sections, each sectioncomprising a sheet member and two transverse cleats attached thereto,said cleats having lengths substantially equal to the width-of the sheetto which they are attached and having their ends formed for overlappingengagement with the cleats of an adjacent section in such manner as topermit overlapping engagement of the sheets, and flexible bindingmembers connecting said sections in series to permit the foldedrelationship mentioned.

2. A package blank comprising a plurality of sections, each consistingof a sheet and two cleats attached transversely to the sheet, each ofsaid cleats having a longitudinal rabbet l2 for the reception of a sheetend, and at one end transversely rabbeted, and at the other end doublytransversely rabbeted, the maximum length of the cleat substantiallyapproximating the width of the sheet to which it is attached, andflexible binding members foldablv connecting the sections in serieswhereby the sections may be folded to bring the eleatsinto overlappingand interlocking engagement and the sheet edges into overlappingengagement.

3. A package blank comprising a pluralty of sections eaeh consisting ofa sheet and two cleats attached transversely to the sheet, each of saidcleats having a longitudinal rabbet 12 for the reception of a sheet end,and the cleats of a longitudinal series having mating ends one of whichis formed with a single transverse rabbet and the other Ef which isformed with two transverse rabets.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolis, Indiana,this 9th day of October, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

ARTHUR M. HOOD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, 'Washingtom D. C.

